I keep reading -- even nowadays on Usenet -- about the UN/Iraq "oil for
food scandal". So it's amazing to me how people overlook Josh
Marshall's posts on the subject, wherein he passes along the
Economist's reporting that no one except the Iraqi National Congress and
Claude Hankes-Drielsma (a longtime Chalabi associate) has seen the
evidence of this scandal. And later, he highlighted one particularly
incredible development: the data in two computers -- one in Iraq,
one in the UK -- was "wiped out by hackers". Hankes-Drielsma went on
to claim that the hacking was done at the behest of the US
and UK: